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...longest-running story from Washington in the past two years has been about the problems of Ronald Reagan's White House staff and Cabinet. The trials and tribulations of Meese-Deaver-Baker and Shultz-Clark-Weinberger have probably been covered as thoroughly as any specific issue of the economy or national security. The story keeps replaying day after day like a bad soap opera. Through it all has been the not-too-faint suggestion of an Executive structure stalled and befuddled by ignorance or enmity and always on the brink of explosion or collapse...
...that he took his first plunge into politics and became Reagan's campaign chairman for Ventura County. Reagan was equally taken with the amiable Clark and made him chief of his Sacramento staff early in his first term. Clark's staff included Edwin Meese III and Michael Deaver. To lighten the paper flow into the Governor's office, Clark developed the famous "mini-memo" system of single-page briefings, which is still in use at the White House. When aides groused that many ideas were too complex to be boiled down to a one-page memo, Clark...
...nuclear freeze movement and El Salvador, Clark prevailed over James Baker and his aides, whom Clark dismisses privately as "political types" and "civilians." In January, Clark interceded against a White House reorganization that would have diminished Meese's role. That intervention strained his relations with his old friend Deaver, who devised the plan, but blunted the attempt of Clark's rivals, "the civilians," to grab more power. The tension thickened in February, when Clark tried unsuccessfully to oust Press Spokesman David Gergen against Baker's wishes. Though Clark failed in that effort, his position in the White...
...Democrats are not holding meetings to find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff Mike Deaver with orders, say sources, to "blunt it-by substance and symbolism...
...campaign, Barrett was named TIME'S White House correspondent in 1981. Familiarity with the Reagan team certainly did not breed contempt in him; neither did it render him unwilling to make tough judgments. He depicts Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese as deceitful and ineffectual, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver as a plodding loyalist, National Security Adviser William Clark as a tough conniver, and Chief of Staff Baker as a game player with few deeply held beliefs...